Acrobat 7 tool bar in Office apps

[roverman]

I'd like to keep the pdfmaker tookbar icon from showing up every time I open any of the Office Programs. I've removed them and as soon as I open any of the MS programs, they are back.
I'm using Office 2003 and Acrobat standard v7.
Not a critical issue, I just don't like stuff I don't need or want. I don't use Acrobat that often and have no need for the icons or toolbars.

I was on the Acrobat site and their comment was Adobe doesn't add icons to the toolbar.

If I rename the pdfmaker....dlls, next time I open a program, it reinstalls, so that didn't work.

Thanks for your help.
Randy

[pillainp]

Under Tools>Macros, raise your Macro Security Level to High or Highest. Next time you start Word, it will ask if you want to enable macros, and list them. Then you can disable the ones you choose.
Caveat: This will also diable all Acrobat functionality within Word.

If all you want to do is not see the Acrobat toolbar, you can right click your toolbar area and uncheck the "PDFMaker 7.0" toolbar from there.

[roverman]

pillainp,
Well, it was worth a try. It was set at high, now it's set at Very High. These icons show up next to HELP on the main menu tool bar. I right click the toolbar and choose Customize to remove them, but they come back next time I open the program (word, outlook, excel...). The PDFMaker toolbar is not checked, by the way.

I think I can live with it. I'm trying to get use to ignoring the icons. I just don't like extra stuff that I don't want or didn't ask for.

[Cheryl]

If your comfortable editing the registry, look at the bottom of the page of the link below - I haven't tried it so I don't know for sure if it works, but it should.

http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

Or, try modifying your installation (add/remove programs, choose acrobat & modify). When you get to the screen where you see "create adobe pdf" click on the + sign, click on the + sign next to "acrobat pdf maker" & then click on the down arrow next to "microsoft office" & choose "this feature will not be available". (I tried this one & it worked)

Cheryl

[thefultonhow]

Or, try modifying your installation (add/remove programs, choose acrobat & modify). When you get to the screen where you see "create adobe pdf" click on the + sign, click on the + sign next to "acrobat pdf maker" & then click on the down arrow next to "microsoft office" & choose "this feature will not be available". (I tried this one & it worked)

This is the best method. I've done it many a time with Acrobat 6, and it's a really easy fix.